Vocabulary
- constantly: Frequently, or without pause
- perceive: To notice or become aware of something
- approach: To get close to reaching something or somewhere
- essential: Extremely or most important and necessary
- mental: Concerning the mind
- determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
- prone: Lying flat with your head facing the ground
- conflict: Argument or struggle between two or more parties
- express: To send something by fast mail
- interpret: To express so that others understand it
- brag: To speak too proudly about yourself
- psychology: The study of the mind and how it affects behavior
- fundamental: Forming a necessary part, base, or core
- research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
- insecure: Lacking confidence or certainty about yourself
- casual: Being careless or having little thought or effort
- conduct: Your behavior
- accessible: Able to be entered, reached or used
- affect: To cause a change in something else
- avoid: To prevent from happening
- vice: used as part of the title of particular positions. The person who holds one of these positions is next below in authority to the person who holds the full position and can act for them
- journal: A diary; record of what you do every day
- suppress: To prevent the display of emotion or feeling
- judge: Person who decides on the results of a contest
- compare: To consider how similar and different things are
- independent: Making your own decisions; acting by yourself
- relate: To demonstrate a logical relationship between
- article: Word such as 'a', 'an', or 'the' used before nouns
- competent: Fully qualified or capable of doing
- rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence
- mind: To be bothered or upset by something
- suggest: To mention something that could be done; propose
- social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
- criticize: To assess the work of others
- fake: Not real; made to look like something real
- mindful: Bearing in mind; attentive to
- beneficial: Giving an advantage, having a helpful effect
- ongoing: Continuing to exist or be in progress
- shove: To roughly push someone or something away
- gravitate: To move toward something due to an attraction
- versa: used to say that what you have just said is also true in the opposite order
- set: Prepared for something; ready
- person: Man, woman or child
- make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
- insightful: Displaying clear and deep understanding
- real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
- grade: To give a road the required angle of slope
- university: High-level educational institution; college
- feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
- magnify: To increase the importance or seriousness of
- disagree: To have a different opinion; to fail to agree
- list: To lean to one side, like a boat or ship
- choose: To select; decide between several possibilities
- work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
- post: To send a letter or package using stamps
- deduce: To use logic or reason to reach a conclusion
- disagreement: Act or state of not agreeing
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She took a brave step forward, leaving behind her comfort zone to chase her dreams.
Vocabulary
- brave
adj. Having courage
- comfort zone
phr. A familiar situation where one feels safe
Explanation
a brave step is a noun phrase, where brave is an adjective modifying the noun step, meaning "a courageous step".
forward is an adverb modifying step, meaning "ahead".
The whole phrase serves as the object, answering the "what" of took (verb) — she took a brave step forward.
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brave
US/brev/
UK/breɪv/
adj.Brave
v.t.To bravely face
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